Sunday, November 09, 2008

change.gov - the era of tubes to end?

Change.gov - it was set up within 24 hours of Obama's win.



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Edit

If you have Firefox type this

about:robots

into the address bar.

Hmm...

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

"Big Bird dropping the f-bomb on Sesame Street."



U.S. Supreme Court Monitor - Supreme Court Debates the 'F-Bomb'
source: law.com

It was an unusual hour, as justices debated the relative impact of barnyard epithets, and Solicitor General Gregory Garre warned the Court not to rule in a way that could lead to "Big Bird dropping the f-bomb on Sesame Street."

At one point, Justice John Paul Stevens sheepishly asked whether regulators should be able to consider as a factor whether an expletive is used in a "hilarious, very, very funny" way. "Some of these things," the 88-year-old justice confessed, "you can't help but laugh at."

Garre agreed that could weigh in the consideration of whether the usage was shocking or titillating.

Sarcastically, Justice Antonin Scalia interjected, "Oh, it's funny. I mean, bawdy jokes are OK if they are really good."
Scalia is such a putz. And law.com isn't any fun at all - the link to the article seems "protected".

Well - here's the print friendly [link].


A Google News search on the issue: "Supreme Court" "fleeting expletives" - Google News

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Google Obama! Style



Haha.

Just a few minutes ago I made a Style that can put that on your screen when you go to Google. I should have thought of it weeks ago...

To use a Style you need Firefox and the Stylish Firefox Add-on.

Stylish [download page at addons.mozilla.org]

Google Obama! Style [download page at userstyles.org]

userstyles.org is site for Stylish and it has thousands of Styles.

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Boring Technical Stuff...

A Style is just a bit of CSS code that Stylish sort of pastes into the page. I used the :before pseudo class. [Edit - I fixed a small bug.] The entire Style is very short - here it is...

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document url("http://www.google.com/"){
center:before { font-size:280px !important; font-family:"Trebuchet MS" !important; }
center:before { content: "Obama!" }
}